“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.

What is art but a way of seeing?

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.

It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

I don’t know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It’s interesting.

People expect a nice period piece, but that’s not always the case. There’s a deep human mystery in his work.

Every single thing is like a new thing, so it’s never what I expect.

I don’t expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.